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Tonight on the curse of oak island...

I say we get those rocks out.

Okay, let's do it.

This feature was known as a tunnel entrance,

and then ignored.

It does have a little bit of an edge, though.

- Oh, yeah. - Now, that tells me

- that's a coin. - Mm-hmm.

- Also chinese. - Cool.

We've got to dig this. It's been there a long time.

- Oh! - What is that?

This could have been a deep harbor at one time?

It's not probably could have, it probably was.

Wow.

There is an island in the north atlantic

where people have been looking for an incredible treasure

for more than 200 years.

So far, they have found a stone slab

with strange symbols carved into it...

Mysterious fragments of human bone...

And a lead cross, whose origin may stretch back

to the days of the knights templar.

To date, six men have died

trying to solve the mystery.

And, according to legend,

one more will have to die

before the treasure can be found.

- Gentlemen. - Hey, guys.

So, guys, we're back.

We're back on oak island,

uh, we're eager to get caught up.

We're eager to have a plan, we're eager to get going,

get briefed so we're all on the same page.

It is a new morning on oak island,

and after completing a mandatory two-week quarantine

that allowed them to safely enter canada,

brothers rick and marty lagina have called a meeting

in the war room.

Now, everybody can see we don't have as many people

here in the war room,

because, uh, you know,

the overused expression "the elephant in the room"

is covid-19,

which we're trying to take as seriously as we can,

follow everything the province of nova scotia says.

We are basically six feet apart in here,

which means we are at the maximum capacity

of the war room.

But we want everybody on the same page.

This could be a really big year.

This could be where we actually move the needle

before we do the massive things we've done other years.

So, we need to get the whole team on as best we can.

Doug, we've got 'em teed up to, uh, to join us.

Joining the meeting via video conference

are rick and marty's friend and partner, craig tester,

his stepson jack begley,

along with oak island historian charles barkhouse

and archaeologist laird niven.

So the first item on the agenda is the swamp.

And, uh, we weren't here for this.

Doug, maybe you want to fill us in about

dr. Spooner's work in the swamp.

How's the penetration look, ian?

Oh, it's incredible.

It looks really good right now.

One week ago, while investigating

a mysterious anomaly in the swamp,

which, according to an aerial photo taken in 1945,

might indicate the presence of a mysterious tunnel

or searcher shaft,

canadian geoscientist dr. Ian spooner

and professional diver tony sampson

used a sonar device to see if evidence could still be found

hidden beneath several feet of brackish water and muck.

Big drop-off right here.

It's like a wall.

- That's fantastic. - Yeah. What I'm convinced of

is a real feature exists right here.

So, when dr. Spooner identified this,

this is about nine foot square, I believe,

is the impression he got from the sonar.

And that goes to the little problem

that fred and dan had.

- Fred surreptitiously drew the swamp down. - Mm-hmm.

Dan confronts him, makes him

fill it back in, and then fred says to dan, "hey, did you see

that shaft over there in the corner of the swamp?"

Shortly after being hired to mp all the land on oak island

back in the early 1960s,

surveyor fred nolan decided to purchase land on the island

in order to pursue his own treasure search.

Initially, he worked closely with rival treasure hunter

dan blankenship until the two began

a bitter feud that lasted until fred's death in 2016.

Unfortunately, one of the many consequences of the feud

was that much of the pair's research became lost.

Only now, with the laginas' recent purchase

of dan's land and partnership shares,

has anyone had access

to dan and fred's vast and invaluable archive.

So, there's a feature there, certainly.

The hope is that we can figure out a way

to get to it and dig it.

I'm gonna bet

that nobody here in this room or on the screen

is gonna be against trying to excavate

that southeast corner of the swamp. Am I correct?

You're right. - Correct.

- Yep. - Correct.

- You guys all on board? - Yep.

Mm-hmm.

There is one more thing

that we need to talk about, though.

What do we do... You tried metal detecting.

You did a great job, but if we excavate,

would we put the spoils outside...

You know how sloppy it gets...

Or would we take a chance and truck it to the wash plant

and-and run through it?

Spread 'em out.

I'd put it through the wash plant,

'cause you've got a big chance of missing something in there.

There's enough work for everybody to once and for all

have a much greater understanding of the role

the swamp has played in oak island lore.

We, having recently arrived,

still have been the recipients

of a lot of information on lot 15, which was all new.

Very exciting stuff.

A feature we were... Heretofore unknown to us.

Just today, when david macinnes said

that as they were digging down, they'd pretty much decided

this thing was a, um, tar kiln,

and then he's digging down,

and he finds another almost layer of rocks.

Laird, you're gonna dig deeper, right?

Yeah, david's, uh, david's gonna take that down,

and we'll record it as best we can, and then hopefully

he'll be able to remove some of the rocks

and see what's underneath there.

It's not consistent

with what you expected to see if it was just a kiln.

No.

Well, you know,

it was marked on fred's map as an entrance to a tunnel.

That doesn't mean anything necessarily, but...

Well, it does if there's a tunnel there.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Okay, well, that's exciting yet; there's a lot

to be determined yet there, and we're gonna

not cease until we find out what happened on lot 15.

- Yeah. - All right,

well, that's a pretty full agenda, gentlemen.

Rick, do you concur?

I agree. We've got

a pretty aggressive agenda set forth,

and I have high hopes for a lot of it.

I think it's gonna be a really good year.

So, I think we're done,

as far as yakkin' goes, so...

We need to get up and go, right?

Yep.

- Thanks, guys. - Bye, guys.

- See ya, guys. - See ya.

After concluding their meeting in the war room..

...Rick, marty and doug are joined

by project manager scott barlow

along with heavy equipment operator billy gerhardt

and geoscientist dr. Ian spoonr at the oak island swamp.

All right.

Hello, guys.

We're trying to figure out, ian, what, uh,

what exactly your target is

- out here in the swamp. - Why don't we walk over there.

- Yeah, yeah, let... Yeah, okay. Marty: Let's do that, yeah, point it out, please.

We're keenly interested in it, and we got some plans

- we got to make. - Right.

There's nothing like getting the team together

right where we're going to do some sort of project,

to be able to look around and make sure that, you know,

sort of common sense prevails,

as opposed to having it all on paper.

I think the key thing is having a kind of an honest conversation

- yeah. - About what everybody,

you know, is kind of looking for, and...

- Right. - And building it around that.

That's, uh... You know where the rebar is there?

- That rebar sticking out? - Yes.

There is... There was a... There's a ledge there.

The sonar seemed to show us that.

But didn't you see something?

A square-looking thing that you thought...

- In the air photos, yeah. - That might be a shaft.

Uh, yeah, it was, it was... Let's make a square here.

Nee, nee, nee. It was like that.

Well, I've been...

Very much intrigued with your hypotheses,

and don't... correct me if I'm stating it wrong...

But that this could have been a deep harbor

at one time?

It's not probably could have, it probably was.

- Well, I like that even better. - Now, harbor is deep, deep.

It could have been used as a harbor.

- It could have been used. - Yeah.

So, if we put a...

Retaining wall, sort of...

Sort of right there, heading out towards the tip of the peninsula

- right. - And then coming over this way.

- Right. - And then you want to encompass the road here, right?

To properly search the bottom of the swamp

for evidence of what could be a wooden tunnel,

the oak island team will need to construct a cofferdam

similar to the one that irving construction installed

at smith's cove two years ago.

Comprised of large steel sheets

hammered deep into the mud and sediment,

the cofferdam will create a watertight barrier,

one that will permit the targeted section of the swamp

to be drained.

The thought is to put... and this was scott's idea, I believe...

Put sheet within a sheet, right?

Because if we put sheet within a sheet,

it keeps the crane pad from encroaching upon the wetland.

- Yeah. - We'll run that past irving.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

This is gonna be as big a project

as smith's cove, damn near.

It's a pretty big project, yep.

I kind of have a difference of opinion.

I think it's gonna be far more difficult than smith's cove.

Oh, boy.

We've got permitting issues,

we've got logistical issues...

Here you go, billy.

Might as well must have it right now.

We'll get her done.

After their meeting at the swamp,

brothers rick and marty lagina

make their way to lot 15.

They have just been alerted

by archaeologist david macinnes...

A direct descendant of famed oak island treasure hunter

daniel mcginnes... of a potentially important discovery

in the structure believed to be a 16th-century pine tar kiln.

And located near a possible entrance to a tunnel

that could lead directly to the original money pit.

Well, what say you, david?

- Rick. Marty. - You're pretty deep.

- How you doing? - Hi, liz.

- Hey, guys. - Hey.

What's the surprise here? Because you-you...

Okay, we've made some changes since you got here,

- but when we phoned you... - Mm-hmm.

- Those rocks right there? - Yeah?

- Were down there, right? - Yeah.

And that had all the appearances

- of a pine tar kiln. - Wow.

If this was an early 1700s pine tar kiln,

and it would make sense that-that... That it's...

That's a reasonable speculation,

that's reasonable interpretation of what this might be,

this would likely be colonial.

Britain officially had nova scotia at that point.

They look like they've been thrown in by a person

to fill in a well.

Only we haven't gotten down deep enough

to get to the slope. Have you got my drift?

- Yeah. - Okay, so...

Or you know what I'm gonna say.

- You know what I'm gonna say. - Okay, what are you gonna say?

I'm gonna say it could be a tunnel.

Well, we're gonna test that.

A possible tunnel entrance?

Could this stone structure,

which the team already believes to have possibly been

the base of operations for those who constructed

the original money pit,

also contain a secret tunnel entrance,

as fred nolan indicated on a survey map of the area

more than five decades ago?

That is really weird that

this feature was known and delineated

as a tunnel entrance and then-then ignored.

That is bizarre.

It just shows how treasure hunters can really get blinder.

I don't think we're making that mistake, but...

But we wouldn't know, would we?

I say we get those rocks out.

Okay, let's do it.

Um, now we might need some help.

- Yeah. - Uh, because we can't lift these rocks.

I don't see anything here that I can't lift out.

- - okay.

You know the way to probably do that?

If I went and got the backhoe and just

put the bucket right there.

The hoe bucket... I'm sure rick and me, if he needed help,

could put them in the bucket.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I'll go get the backhoe, so we can get that done.

Okay.

While rick and marty help

excavate the mysterious structure on lot 15,

at the oak island interpretive centre,

alex lagina meets with artifact conservator kelly bourassa.

Morning, kelly.

He has come to share his expert analysis

of what the team believes could be

an ancient coin which was discovered two weeks ago

by gary drayton and jack begley on lot 15.

Well, uh, to get started, I mean, we've got,

we can keep you busy all summer, as you know.

- Wonderful. - Um, and I'm gonna be bringing

things in periodically as we find them, as well.

- And I have one for you to start with, if you can. - Okay.

I'm just gonna put it down there,

so you can see it.

Oh, yeah.

What in heaven's name could that be?

There's, uh, probably some equipment

that might need that and there's also

chinese coinage had a... Had a square hole.

- Cool. - A possible chinese coin?

Coins featuring a square hole as part of their design

were first minted in china

dating back as far as the 4th century b.C.

During what was known as the warring states period

and were used all throughout the region

until the early 20th century.

Could this coin actually be an ancient chinese artifact?

And if so, how did it end up on oak island?

If this is a chinese coin, there should be

some kind of markings on the surface of it, I would hope.

I don't see anything that's obvious

under magnification here, but first step would be

to take a photograph of it, of, uh, both sides.

And I do that here with a scale.

It's a little over two centimeters.

Okay, I'm just gonna flip it over on the other side.

There's one edge that seems to be

- a little flatter than the rest. - Mm-hmm.

Good.

So, the first part of the process is just

to take a toothbrush just to get that, uh,

initial surface layer of dust.

- You see it's changing al-already, right? - Mm-hmm.

There's a bit of green on it,

- which is a hint of copper. - Mm-hmm.

This was found on lot 15 near

to a structure that we're still trying to identify.

We think it might be a pine tar kiln.

Oh!

It-it does have a bit of a ridge, alex.

You have to look at it pretty close.

If you see there, it does have a little bit of an edge to it.

Right along here.

- Oh, yeah. - Now, that tells me that's more

- like the kind of thing you'd see for a coin. - Mm-hmm.

- And there seems to be a couple - okay.

Of little markings here.

- Oh, yeah... - So some little things,

but it's hard to say really what it is.

It doesn't look like it's characters

that I would recognize.

- Mm-hmm. - Right now,

it can't clearly be defined as a... As a coin

until we do a little bit more research on it.

- Right, right. - But then, maybe.

Maybe see where we go from there.

- So hints of a coin, but maybe... - Hint, yeah.

Maybe a little bit more leg work.

- Well, just another mystery right? - Yeah.

As alex and kelly finish up at the interpretive centre,

back on lot 15...

Marty lagina arrives with

the backhoe to help his brother rick

remove large stones and bouldes

from what they hope could be a tunnel entrance.

Perfect. There, you're right underneath it.

Now down?

Pull it up.

How's the texture?

It's pretty loose.

By examining the various ratios

of sand, silt, and clay located

underneath and around a stone structure,

experienced archeologists can determine

if it might have been there for a long or short time.

Soil that is primarily comprised of sand, for example,

would be beneficial to digging a well or a pine tar kiln,

whereas harder more clay-rich soil

would be ideal for the construction of a tunnel.

So what are you seeing?

It's very loose.

- That's pretty packed till, eh? - Yeah.

I think next steps are

to clean this up, uh, and then take it down to till.

See what's in here.

And then we've got to expose this.

Really like to define that more.

Yeah, that needs to be defined more.

Yeah, see if there is actually is a trench

- running down there. - Yeah.

Although rick and marty would like nothing more

than to continue an aggressive excavation

of the mysterious shaft-like feature,

they must now allow for the archaeological

team to proceed with caution

in order to avoid compromising any evidence

that might help determine just exactly what it is.

You know, the lot 15 work, I think

there's a little bit of frustration because

they're unsure, even after days

of doing their work, the purpose for it.

But I think everybody has immense respect for

the work they're doing and how carefully they're doing it.

And I look forward to a competent understanding

of what that structure is and,

again, what lessons can be learned in terms

of coming to a greater understanding of oak island.

It's still a mystery,

certainly. I have always been of the opinion

that the story of oak island

is far more intriguing,

vastly more rich, than any treasure.

- Yeah. - So...

We appreciate it and, uh,

look forward to what you have to say yet.

- Well, thanks for the help. - Thank you.

Thanks a lot. We appreciate it.

You guys stay safe, take care, good luck.

- Thank you. - Yeah, thanks.

Ce is covered with fire-cracked rock.

While archaeologists david macinnes, aaron taylor

and liz michels continue to excavate

the mysterious structure on lot 15...

Let's go, mate. You keep me straight.

...Metal detection expert

gary drayton, along with jack begley, search nearby

in hopes of finding more evidence related

to the recent discovery of an ancient chinese coin.

As we get

further away from the guys,

we're actually getting closer towards the swamp.

An area which would've been traversed back in the day

by anyone working in between

the money pit and the swamp.

- Just to that rock right there. - Okay.

That sounds good.

It's a little broken up.

More than likely it's iron.

We're looking for barrel loops and tools.

- This could be one. - Oh, really?

It's a screamer, mate, that is.

Widen that hole, mate.

I'm hoping it's deeper because if it's deeper,

that means it's older. It's been there a long time.

It's this clump. We were just missing it.

What is that?

That looks like a large,

broken ox shoe.

That's what that is.

Because it has the lip on the back, right there.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

It would have come out...

And that was a large one.

Probably a draft ox.

A so-called "draft ox"

is a steer at least four years of age

which has been trained for humn activities such as farming.

Because oak island was used by farmers

dating back to the late 18th century,

perhaps its presence here has a simple explanation.

However, draft oxen have also been used by military forces

dating back centuries for the purposes of hauling cargo.

Is it possible that this ox she

might be connected to the mysterious structure nearby

on lot 15, which the team believes

could be a 16th-century british military construct?

One also possibly connected to the construction

of the original money pit.

We're directly between the swamp

or the paved area and the money pit.

- Yeah. - So, yeah, they...

Someone could have been transporting something,

either from the money pit

- or to the money pit. - Yeah. You got that right, mate,

and they would have needed a big oxen.

That's what this would have fit on.

It would have gone that way, so it could get the traction.

This is making sense to me now.

And with us finding a broken ox shoe... a fairly wide one...

That tells me that this is a large beast of burden

that would have been used to transport something heavy

from one point to another point.

We got to dig this. This is no blasting cap.

There's a big piece of iron here.

Just there, mate.

Yeah, it's about eight inches.

Yeah, I see iron residue.

You're on it.

Ooh. There's another one. - Another ox shoe.

Yeah. That's a smaller one.

But look how wide it is.

I kind of figured that was gonna be an ox shoe.

Why would you have ox right there?

If you kind of lined them up, though,

you're coming from the harbor and the swamp,

and it's headed back towards where they're excavating

right now, the lot 15 feature.

You've got the peninsula down there,

you got the paved area,

and now you've got ox shoes in an area

where we know there hasn't been a lot of farming.

So, if we start finding these in one area,

and if they line up, it could be an old track.

Yeah, and it lines right back towards the tar kiln.

A pathway or a track

leading from the swamp to the stone structure on lot 15?

Is it possible that gary and jack are finding evidence

of an operation to move cargo away from the swamp?

If so, could that explain the massive stone-paved feature

the team unearthed in the swamp one year ago?

And also perhaps the mysterious anomaly

detected by seismic scanning buried some 50 feet deep

in the middle of a brackish, man-made bog?

Okay, mate,

let's get back on track.

Which is kind of ironic,

'cause I believe this could be a track.

I-I think so, too, gary.

Jack, I got more iron here, mate.

Look... see, it disappeared completely?

There's definitely iron here.

- Right there, right? - Yep.

Yeah, it is.

I can see rust.

- That's a good sign. - Yeah, that is.

Hopefully it's something cool.

Come on, come on.

Wow. The heck is that?

- The heck is that? - A pin for hauling something?

- You know, I... - I don't think it's a pin.

I-I've seen similar things

on horse and ox harnesses

where they have these knobs on the end.

Oh.

- I think you might right, gary. - Yeah.

That's what this reminds me of.

What they'd, like, put the reins around?

- I think? - Yeah. But this is heavy.

That's what I like about it.

- It's nice and heavy. - So you think it's really old, then?

Pre-1800s.

This is amazing.

Ox shoes were never really anything

to get too excited about

until you find them in the proper context.

So we're definitely onto some sort

- of an oxen trail - yeah.

That leads between the paved area

inside the swamp over to the money pit.

I mean, we're looking for tools and signs of activity

between the swamp and where the guys are working up there.

This is what we want to be finding, because some kind

of hauling took place along here.

- We're on a track. - And hauling before they had

- any sorts of roads or trails. - Yep.

Obviously, they were pushed to have to quickly make

some sort of a trail and force their oxen through it.

- Sweet. - We're on the right track, gary.

Everything is lining up now.

As a new day begins on oak island,

and while archaeologists liz michels,

aaron taylor and david macinnes continue their investigation

of the mysterious structure on lot 15...

Scott, so if you want to bring them up?

...Brothers rick and marty lagina,

along with marty's son alex

and team project manager scott barlow...

- Hello, guys. - Hello, gentlemen.

Craig. - Hello.

...Have gathered in the war room

for a meeting via video conference.

Joining them are rick and marty's friend

and partner craig tester

as well as david irving, the general manager

of irving equipment limited,

pile driving manager matt kingston

and his research and developmet executive patrick craig.

They are eager to discuss the possibility of installing

a massive steel cofferdam in the triangle-shaped swamp

in order to successfully drain and excavate the area

where the team has identified the presence

of a possible man-made structure.

You know, the first thing is to discuss the crane position.

Where are we going to set up the crane?

And as you know, uh...

We do have some limitations there.

You couldn't use the road as your secondary crane pad?

Yes... That's where we would set it up, rick,

but we would need to...

Add a little bit more material just to, uh,

widen it out a little bit.

Okay.

The present plan is to run

sheet piling, much like we did in smith's cove

well out into the swamp, tie it back to the hill,

go across the road to the high water mark,

to keep the ocean back, and then back to the hill.

So that anywhere in there we can dig.

We can dig the road up, we can dig, um,

anywhere in the swamp, and, you know,

hopefully, successfully find out what's in there.

David, I'm gonna let you, if you'd be so kind,

to-to start in and give us our options, if you would.

Yeah, sure.

We've got pretty big sheets here.

These are 30, 40-foot sheets...

In terms of pile length.

And for that reason, we're gonna have

a fairly big vibratory hammer.

I think it's our biggest one we have.

It's a 300 xl. And for that reason,

I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a suitable excavator

to hook it up to that could handle that size vibro.

Installing a cofferdam would entail a multistep proces

that begins by building a 1,600 square foot crane pad

out of gravel.

Once completed, a massive 300-ton crane

will be used to lift nearly 90 large interlocking sheets

of steel into place and driven between ten to 20 feet

into the ground by a vibro hammer,

ultimately isolating the desired area.

This will allow the oak island team

the ability to fully drain and excavate the area

without the threat of flooding or cave-ins.

Craig, we'll verify with the design team

and let you know how-how far,

how many sheets do we need, to, you know,

allow you guys to start digging as soon as possible.

That's definitely something, I think,

that's in the realm of possibility.

Right.

So, I think, if I can summarize,

regardless of how this evolves,

I think what we can agree on for sure

is we put in the crane pad,

we put in the sheet piling all the way around,

we excavate the swamp first and the road last.

- Mm-hmm. - All right, so, you know,

we need a, we need a quote and a time and money now, right?

When can you do it and how much?

Yeah, well, uh...

So we're gonna go with this configuration, this crane.

A lot of our 300-ton class machines

are busy right now but we do have

one coming up from texas.

And we think we can be hook ready,

on-site, ready to go

in about a month's time.

Okay.

We think we would have all 89 sheets installed.

If you start in the swamp side,

once you get to the road,

are you okay with us working

the northern part of the swamp?

Yeah, I think that's no problem.

Thanks, guys.

Look, david and matthew and, uh,

patrick, we-we can't say enough about,

you know, working with you has been a pleasure.

Uh, we look forward to this endeavor as well.

We really got to get moving, so we look forward to hearing

back from you as soon as possible.

Yep. Hundred percent.

No, we're all over it. We understand

that time is of the essence.

So, we're going to jump on it here

and get back to you as soon as we can, and...

We look forward to trying to help you

find something this year.

- Good. - Well, thank you.

Later that afternoon,

approximately 50 miles north of oak island...

Hey, carmen.

...Alex lagina and jack begley

arrive at blacksmithing expert carmen legge's shop

in centreville, nova scotia.

They are eager to have him examine the recent finds

made by jack and metal detectin expert gary drayton on lot 15.

All right, let's start with this one.

So...

You're gonna know exactly what this is immediately

because we've come and shown you these before

and we have a couple different... Ox shoes.

A winter shoe?

Well, what do you mean by winter shoe?

How can you tell that?

Is there a difference between the shoes that would be used

by a british farmer or, you know,

something like that versus what would be used

by the british military?

Or would you be able to tell?

So that's not the same

as the old shoes

that we brought you in years past?

No. Some of them were german

and there was also a few french shoes in there.

Mm-hmm.

Early 1700.

At northville farms in centreville, nova scotia,

blacksmithing expert carmen legge has just concluded

that the ox shoes found on lot 15 could date back

to as much as 150 years

before the discovery of the money pit.

- Cool. - Could that mean

that the animal these belonged to

was in some way connected to the mysterious stone structure

found on lot 15?

A structure that might also have been involved

in the construction of the money pit prior to 1795?

We do have a few more from the same region. Right, jack?

Yeah, we got a couple different ox shoes.

That seems much bigger.

Two different animals, at least.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

One other interesting thing about the ox shoes

is that we found

both kinds on oak island,

in the vicinity of this lot 15 structure,

which indicates that not only was there a large-scale

industrial or military activity happening,

it was happening in two different seasons

for at least a decent length of time.

All these ox shoes were found

in a line, that it seemed like someone was hauling something

between the swamp and the money pit.

And... Yeah.

Along the same trail.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

A massive excavation.

Well, do you think this piece

is related as well?

When you identified all the other objects,

it really makes me think there was

an old british military operation of sorts

between the swamp and the money pit.

Or that's what it appears to be.

We haven't finished detecting the area, so we'll have to

- go back and see what else we can find. - Yeah, we will...

We'll go back out there a-and look for some more stuff.

- Thank you very much. - Thanks for all the help.

Thank you. We'll see you soon, carmen. Take care.

Later that afternoon...

- Hey, there they are. - Hey, guys.

...Alex lagina and jack begley

meet with rick, marty,

gary drayton and peter fornetti

outside the interpretive centre to report what they've learned

about their latest finds made on lot 15.

- Back from the blacksmith's? - Yep.

- Cool. - With, I think, really, really great results.

- Talk to us. - Well, we took a couple objects,

- mainly the ox shoes. - Mm-hmm.

So, I'll go over those first, but...

- Lot 15 finds? - Mm-hmm.

So, a couple of key points.

They're old enough to fit, even predate, the money pit.

He told us that an ox usually would throw a shoe,

one or two shoes in three months.

And we're finding all kinds of them.

So, h-he... his thought was, you know, that's indicative

of a lot of activity.

So, what carmen said is that the ox shoes

and-and what we've been calling a harness could date back

as early as the 1600s.

He's also certain that they were not used for farming.

He thinks military or large-scale industry.

Wow.

In, he thinks, is british.

Wow.

And it was a rocky area there.

- Yeah. Yeah. - Wasn't farmland.

And, uh,

two different kinds of shoe.

Winter and summer. Indicative of...

Year-round.

Year-round or at least through two different seasons.

Based upon the style and that it was all the same,

it would appear to him that it was some sort

of a well-used and well-traversed hauling area.

So, it's not just one ox

that, you know, a farmer's using.

It's a team of oxen

that are, over the course of many months

if not years, hauling stuff between

the paved area in the swamp and the money pit.

Yeah. Well, this is all what you suspected, isn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah, some kind of trail.

And-and it's exciting for me knowing that there was

a lot of british in that one area,

uh, doing a lot of hauling.

We have templars. We have,

uh, rosicrucians. We have pirates. Uh...

And now we're gonna throw

the british military into this?

I mean, it's amazing.

Uh, it's an island... It is indeed an island

- of what-ifs and possibilities. - Do you have

- the other thing that we brought him? - Yeah.

- There we go. - Oh, here it is.

You remember this one, gary?

Well, let me see.

Yeah, I thought that was something to do on the end

- of the harness of the ox. - Mm-hmm.

Carmen doesn't think so.

- Okay. - He thinks this is cast iron.

- Yeah. - So, not functional.

- Okay. Yeah. - And he thinks this is a finial,

which would have been on a military cart.

Wow. That's even better.

Well, can we clean that?

Yeah, that would be interesting to clean.

He said if you do clean it off,

there'd be probably more decorative stuff

under this part.

- Age. - Two things, actually, about this.

I asked him, you know,

a cast-iron piece like this is not something

that you just make in, like, a small, little blacksmith shop.

He said no, it's not.

- You'd need a mold. - Yeah, you need a mold.

You need, obviously, high temperature.

Um, so, this isn't something that was made on the island.

This was obviously made elsewhere. And...

And being decorative, it would have cost money.

- Right. - Sign of opulence.

So, I mean, that was...

It's still pretty interesting. You know,

- it's not exactly what we thought at first. - Yeah.

But it is...

- Better. - All in all, it's almost better.

- Yeah. - I was just gonna say the same thing.

- It's better. - Yeah.

All right, well, that's good.

You guys did well. You did very well.

- Thank you. - Thank you for your mission.

Well, look, I-I'm glad

that you guys are excited, right?

And every time,

every little bit of information adds to the story.

You know I'm always about the story, right?

What do you make of it all, gary?

Th-these finds have shown us these are

old british pieces of iron, and all we got to do

- is find some old british gold and silver. - Mm-hmm.

Good job, guys.

Since 1795,

generations of determined treasure hunters

have tried to reach the bottom of the money pit.

They were thwarted in their efforts

by everything from ingeniously designed booby tras

and sudden cave-ins

to harsh weather

and a legendary curse

that, so far, has claimed six lives.

So, will rick, marty and their team succeed

where so many others have failed?

There are many who are hoping that the answer

is a profound yes

and that the oak island mystery

is finally on the verge of being solved.

Next time on the curse of oak island...

Let's quit jawboning and dig.

- There it is. Looks like a nice, big "x." - Wow.

What the heck?

- Oh! Another ax! - No way.

This is no coincidence.

This reminds me of a camp.

- That's impressive. - Yeah.

Well, there's something dug here.

It is 100% man-made.

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